Property And Criminal Mischief

A Quakertown man has been charged with break-ins this summer in Skippack Township, state police at Limerick said. Andrew Joseph Bennett, 27, of 227 Gross Road, is in Montgomery County Prison in lieu of $20,000 cash bail, police said. He is charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. Homes on Mount Airy Road and Wambold Road were burglarized, police said.

A 33-year-old Nazareth man is in jail under $100,000 bail on charges he burglarized an Upper Macungie Township home Friday. Timothy J. Graves allegedly stole jewelry and other items from a Ruppsville Road home about 2 p.m. Friday, according to state police in Bethlehem. Graves was arrested on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. He is being held in Lehigh County Prison. Tracy Jordan

Two Monroe County teens are in custody after a resident of A Pocono Country Place development interrupted them in the act of burglarizing his home in the Tobyhanna section of Coolbaugh Township, police said. Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department said Calvin Devine, 18, and a 17-year-old male juvenile were arrested on charges they burglarized a home in the 7100 block of Robinwood Drive Friday afternoon. Police said both teens lived in the same neighborhood, and they took both of them into custody at one of their residences.

BETHLEHEM With the help of a witness, police arrested a 17-year-old Friday who allegedly broke into a parked car and stole five packs of cigarettes in the 1200 block of Shelbourne Drive, Bethlehem. The teenager, on probation under Northampton County juvenile authorities, was charged with theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. He was transferred to Lehigh County juvenile authorities, police said.

Lloyd T. Lenegan, 25, no known address, was bound over for Bucks County Court yesterday by District Justice Kathryn Stump, Quakertown, on charges that he broke into a car parked at the YMCA, California Road, Richland Township, on Aug. 6 and took a wallet containing $160 and a driver's license. He is charged with theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief and is being held in Northampton County Prison on $5,000 bail.

An Allentown man was charged Sunday with the theft of an evergreen tree that was cut in the 300 block of Hamilton Street, police said yesterday. David Barrow, 23, of 714 Turner St. was arrested at 4th and Linden streets. Police said he had the tree and a hacksaw. He was charged with theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. He was released pending due process. Police said the 10-foot tree was cut from the property of the former Gingerbread Man restaurant and was valued at $200.

A man charged with breaking into George's Luncheonette, 1714 Butler St., Wilson, on June 8 was arraigned before District Justice Michael Koury of Wilson on Thursday. Robert Paul Lynn, 29, no address available, was charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. Police said he entered the building through a rear cellar door and stole cash, jewelry and a shotgun, with a total value of $7,700. Lynn was committed to Northampton County Prison on $10,000 bail.

State police at Frackville Monday night arrested a Schuylkill County man for the February burglary of a grocery store in Gordon. Joseph John Eye, 32, of 101 Biddle St., Gordon, was arrested and charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief, police said. The charges stem from the investigation of the Feb. 16 burglary of the Dornsife Grocery Store. Eye is accused of stealing $900 and food stamps from cash registers in the store, which was closed at the time.

A two-month investigation into a string of thefts from vehicles resulted in the arrest of an 18-year-old Perkasie man Thursday. According to police reports, Stephen Patrick Youtz of the 400 block of E. Walnut Street was charged with theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief following police surveillance of the Main Street area, where a series of thefts from parked cars had been reported between Sept. 17 and Nov. 20. Youtz was arraigned before District Justice Robert A. Schnell Jr. and released on $5,000 recognizance bail.

Police charged an Easton man with breaking into an abandoned building to steal copper and scrap metal. William Lee Price, 44, of 626 Rock St. is charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. Price was sent to Northampton County Prison under $10,000 bail. Police said that just before 1 a.m. Sept. 2, they were called to the abandoned Core Tech building, 805 Canal St. Copper and metal pipes, copper fixtures and an air conditioning unit were missing. Around 10:20 p.

A Bethlehem woman whose home was broken into helped police track down the burglar, who turned out to be her neighbor, police said. Hector Carcana III, 28, of 55 E. Garrison St., was charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. Carcana was already in Lehigh County Prison on unrelated drug charges. According to court records: At 3:30 p.m. May 19, police said someone broke into the home of Heather Frantz and Erica Ficzko at 57 E. Garrison St. Several items, including a digital camera, were stolen.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police say a brother and sister committed a series of "smash and grab" robberies in Monroe County, stealing cigarettes from convenience stores in the Poconos to sell in Philadelphia. Joseph Bell, 29, of Philadelphia, and Brenda Bell, 24, of Boyertown, were charged Friday with burglary, criminal trespass, retail theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. They were placed in Monroe County Prison awaiting arraignment. The Bells were arrested following a break-in at the Uni-Mart on Route 940 in the Pocono Lake section of Tobyhanna Township Friday night.

A Bethlehem man accused of stealing 100 pounds of coins from a city home on Saturday night may be linked to other burglaries in the city and Bethlehem Township, city police said. Andrew John Sabella IV, 24, of 1724 10th St., is charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. He was arraigned Saturday before District Judge Joan Marinkovits and was committed to Northampton County Prison under $10,000 bail. Around 3:30 p.m.

One man was arrested and another eluded a search conducted by state and local police after the two men were discovered breaking into a home in Upper Mount Bethel Township on Thursday, state police at Belfast said. Jeffrey Scott Poch, 36, of 1316 Spring Garden St., Easton, was captured a short distance from a getaway vehicle and police said they are looking for the man he was with, William Anthony Christensen, 38, of East Bangor. Poch was charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief.

PERKASIE Perkasie police said they arrested a borough man Monday in connection with a break-in at the Davis Feed Mill. David Seybert, 20, of the 500 block of Waltham Lane was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief after, police said, clues led investigators to him after the May 4 burglary at the store at 140 N. Seventh St. A small amount of money was stolen, police said. Warrington District Justice Philip Daly arraigned Seybert, who was committed to Bucks County Prison under $10,000 bail.

Charged -- Terry Lee Martinez, 29, no permanent address; yesterday with burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief; state police at Bethlehem said they assisted state police at Blooming Grove in locating Martinez at a residence on Snyder's Church Road, about a quarter mile east of Airport Road, to arrest him in a break-in at a cabin in Promised Land, Pike County; Martinez was arraigned before a Northampton County...

Charged -- Kenneth Maurice Ennis, 18, of 219 W. Nesquehoning St.; with conspiracy to commit theft by unlawful taking, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief; police said Ennis was one of five people suspected of breaking into a car at 3:30 a.m. Friday at 10th and Washington streets; Ennis was found in the area and admitted having and dropping a piece of stereo equipment taken from car, police said; arraigned before District...

A Quakertown man is in Bucks County Prison after being charged with stealing a piano from his landlord, court records say. Police say Nathan Ryan Bergman, 24, was moving out of a home at 212 Washington Court last weekend and took the wooden, upright piano to his girlfriend's parents' house nearby. The landlord said the piano and other furniture belonged to him and called police. Court papers say Bergman ultimately admitted taking the piano, but said he thought he had the landlord's permission to do so. Police found the piano in the girlfriend's parents' backyard with a broken music holder and several scratches.